Game apparatus



(Ngfm'odel.) .S. L. GLEMENS.

GAME APPARATUS.

1\0.324,535.y Patented Aug. 18,1885m A a F'Lya/f Tlayezs 67mm?? ATTORNEYS.

' To all whom it may concern,.-

' UNITED STATES PATENT OEECE.

SAMUEL L. cLEMENs, 4or HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

GAM E' APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATIONL'orming part of Letters Pat-ent No. 324,535, dated August 18,1885. Application led October 9, 1884. ('No model.)

Beit known that I, SAMUEL L. GLEME'Ns of Hartford,- in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and .Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,

The object of. my invention is to provide a inew and improved instructive and amusing v each number,

game.

The invention consists in a player-s chart provided with a series of rows or columns of numbers,a hole being provided under or at and a number of holes being provided at the end of each row or column.

The invention also consists in an umpires chart providedwith rows of numbers, columns, or rows for the names of the corresponding ruler, and with rows or columns for the special event of each year. A v.

Reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

' Figure 1 is a face view of part of the players chart.v Fig. -2 is a face view of part of the umpires chart.

To play the game an umpire ,is recommended, and one or several players are required, each player preferably having a chart, A, and the, umpire a chart, B.. Each chart A is provided with a series of vertical or horizontal rows or columns, a, of different colors and varying of the reign ofthe said ruler.

15o -may .all be produced on thesame chart.

Vin the reigns of antiquity,

I lengths, each column containing the numbers of the successive years of the reigns of monarchs, presidents, consuls, and other rulers. Each ruler has aseparate column or row which is longer or shorter according to the duration Under the numbers of each year a small hole, b,s provided for receiving a pin or peg, and under veach column, or at the end of each row, twentyve small holes, d, are arranged in rows of ve each.` As the columns or rows 4have different colors, they can be distinguished' from each othervery readily. The columns may contain the numbers of the years comprised the middle ages, or

modern times, each on a separate chart, or the- The chart may-cbhtain the number of years of the reigns of rulers in any country. As shown, the columns begin With'the reign of William I- of England, the `conqueror, who reigned twenty-one years,`and consequently the column contains the numbers of the years from 1066 to 1087. The second column contains the numbers of years during the reign of William II, wh'o reigned thirteen years, and consequently this column contains the numerals from 1087 to 1100, and so on. 'No names or other information of any kind whatever'arey printed on the players chart A. l

- The umpires chart B is alsol provided with A.numbercolumns a, the same as the chart A;

but adjacent to each column a a space, h, for the names of the monarchs, presidentsconsuls, or other rulers, and at the side of the said 'space h a largerspace or column, l, is provided on which are printed the principal events of each year in line withthe year-numbers,'the said events relating to the country of the ruler or to any other country. For instance, beginning with the rst column and the year 1066, we-have the battle of Hastings and overthrow of the Saxons, and so on. All the players play on the same kind of chart, but each may have an nmpires chart for's'tudyl before playing the game.

The game is played in the following manner: The rst player takes a pin and states that he will place it in the hole of a certain f year, and at the same time he states an event of that year. -lf his statement is correct, he places the pin in the corresponding hole, and if his 'statement' is not correct he is not permitted toplace the pin in thehole. The umpire decides Whether the statement made is correct or not. In this manner 'the game isI played until one player has placed acertain stipulated number of pins in the holes of his chart. This number may vagy according to the experience of the players, for players having al1/extended knowledge of history Will require a greater number of pins to be placed in the holes in the chart than beginners.

I do not limit myself to the arrangement of l the charts shown, but may arrange them in various other Ways.

In' place of arranging the holes under each number, they may Abe arranged in separate columns at the sides ot' the columns a.

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ll claim as new,

rllhe twenty-live or more or less holes d at the bases of the columns are to receive pins to be used for miscellaneous occurrences.

It is not intended to embrace in'this application the gameboard invented and patented by Victor Klobassa, dated March 6, 1875, having upon 4its face two concentric circles with radial lines betweenV them, dred spaces, in which are marked in succession the years from 1.776 downward, with a notable event vfor each year marked in the proper space, which game is played by numbered balls or dice, as described, and which is not my invention. l

Having thus described my invention, .what and desire `to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. A game-chart provided with columns or rows of numbers, a hole being produced at each number, and a series of rows of five holes forming one hunf each being formed at the end of each row, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A gamechart provided with rows or columns of numbers and of columns or rows adjacent to the number columns or rows, on which additional rows or columns the names of the rulers corresponding with the number columns or rows are designated, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. A game-chart provided with rows or columns of numbers, rows or. columns containing the names of rulers who reigned during the ltimes comprised by the numbers, and rows or columns containing certain events of each year, vsubstantially as herein shown and described. v

I SAMUEL L. CLEMEl S.

Witnesses:

ALBERT H. OLMsTED,

GEO. H. BURT. 

